Improvement in buttons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT M. SMITH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,310, dated September "5,1866, antealated September 17, 1866.

To all whom t may concern.- Be it known that I, ALBERT M. SMITH, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invent-ed a new and useful Improvement in Button-Eyes for Fastening or Looping up the Bottoms of Ladies Dresses, and other purposes of a similar eharaeter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full "and `exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part'ofthis specification, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective descriptive view. My improvement consists in making or placing` a pin iu the Center of the eoil of a spiral.- formed blittoireye, to keep the eloth or whatever it is applied to from becoming unfastened on the under side by its slipping and working around and finally Voff from the coil; also, to afford a center for the spiral to turn upon and an additional hold and support to it. I make this center-piece of wire nearly the size ofthe Wire the| spiral eoil B is made of, and either pointed, round, or square on the end designed to go into the cloth, as shall be required for the diierent purposes for which it is designed, and fasten or set it in the button (i the same as the spiral is, and so that it eomes up through the center of it even with the point of the spiral or above it, as required; but generally and for the purposes of fasten ing up ladies dresses, for' which it is more espeeially designed, I make the point sharp, as at a, Fig. 1, and bring it up even. with the point of the spiral, as seen. p

I do not claim making a button with a spiralformed eye, so as to hold together whatever it is applied to by screwing it into and thron gh the difterent pieces or parts to be so held; but

I do claiml A button having a compound shank oomposed of a eentralpin` and a spiral fastening revolving around said. pin, all substantially as described.

y ALBERT M SMITII Vitnesses:

GHARLEs G. TALBOT, "IHoMAs SARGEANT. 

